Christian Hip Hop's Best of awards are back again! If we would’ve told you that Reach, Humble Beast and Lamp Mode would only release a combined six albums in 2015, you probably would’ve thought it’d be a slow year for Christian hip hop.

Derek Minor wasn’t supposed to tell the thousands who purchased Empire about his father, sister and aunt dying, the car accident that hospitalized his wife and the business deal gone wrong that made 2014 the worst year of his life.

[Atlanta, GA] Singer-songwriter and producer Derek Minor has signed a distribution and label services deal with Entertainment One for his upcoming album… Empire. The new music will be the first released by the popular rapper since he left Reach Records earlier this year. Minor’s most recent project Minorville, reached the top of Billboard’s Gospel Music Charts and also earned Stellar and Dove Award nominations for the CD and single, “Dear Mr. Christian”.

Derek Minor has confirmed a September 1st release date for his upcoming project, Your Soul Must Fly and also said that all four parts of his four album series will not drop in 2017 as previously reported. Instead, two will be this year and two will drop next year.